Acknowledgments
Our intellectual debts are many. We owe a special debt to John Wallis for
his overall insightful comments and for prompting us to revisit the
distinction between norms and institutions. For comments, we thank
Doug Allen, Martin Andersson, Jeremy Atack, Andy Baker, Eduardo
Brondizio, Charles Calomiris, Federica Carugati, Alan Dye, Thráinn
Eggertsson, Gustavo Franco, Patrick Francois, David Gerard, Thomas
Ginsburg, Victor Goldberg, ReginaGrafe, Avner Greif, Stephen Haber,
Anne Hanley, Murat Iyigun, Gary Libecap, John Londregan, Dean Lueck,
Shannan Mattiace, Noel Maurer, Terry Moe, Joel Mokyr, Aldo
Musacchio, Larry Neal, Douglass North, Guilherme de Oliveira, Sonja
Opper, Samuel Pessoa, James Robinson, Kenneth Shepsle, William
Summerhill, Richard Sylla, Gustavo Torrens, Stefan Voigt, James
Walker, Barry Weingast, and the participants at the following seminars
and conferences: Lund University, Institute of Behavioral Science
(University of Colorado), OstromWorkshop (Indiana University),
Vanderbilt University, the Society for Institutional and Organizational
Economics, George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, the
Coase Institute Workshop, and Columbia Law School. We thank
President Rafael Correa for hosting separately Eric and Lee J. Alston and
for invaluable discussions with him. We especially thank Larry Neal for his
encouragement early in the project.At Cambridge University Press, we
thank early reviewers and especiallyMichael Watson for not losing faith in
us. For an incredible job on editing, we thank Patty Lezotte of the Ostrom
Workshop. For research assistance and comments, we thank Timothy
Larsen. We are also indebted to the numerous students at Allegheny
College, University of Brasília, University of Colorado, University of
Illinois, and Indiana University. Our students gave us invaluable
feedback on earlier versions of this material. We are incredibly indebted
to our spouses and partners–Sarah, Mary, Suely, and Shannan–who
patiently listened and supported our obsessive talking and thinking about
institutional and organizational analysis.
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